Physicists and educationalists have many theories about why so few girls study physics. Valerie Jamieson goes back to school and asks female pupils what they really think. Vanessa Bennett, Callie ...

It's been a year since Bill Gates left full-time work at Microsoft, but he's found plenty to keep him busy. In between trying to eradicate polio, tame malaria, and fix the broken U.S. education system ...

Science teachers are still concerned about the attractiveness of physics courses. In 1971, in Victoria, Australia, high school physics enrolments showed an absolute decline for the first time in ...

UNION CITY, Calif. (KGO) -- Talking about Newton's Second Law of Motion may not be too appealing to a bunch of sixth-graders. But if you do it in an unconventional science lesson, well that's a game ...

Science is a subject built on doing. Students learn chemistry through titrations, biology through dissections, physics through motion experiments, and earth science through field observations. That ...

Five years after the creation of a multi-institution graduate school for physics PhD students, Peter McDonald and James West outline the lessons learned Diligent learning: Mark Patton from Oxford ...

Hundreds of teenagers push past security guards and police at the Six Flags America amusement park in Maryland, and make a dash for the roller coasters. They are here for the one day a year the ...

It’s common for science teachers to try to craft classroom lessons out of things that students see every day and can easily understand. I remember a lot of the science teachers I had during my school ...

Dive into Python Physics Lesson 23 and discover what happens when approximations fail in dipole electric fields. In this lesson, we explore the limitations of common approximation methods in physics ...

BEIJING — Chinese astronauts on Thursday beamed back a science lesson from the country’s under-construction space station. The lecture focused on physics, aiming to illustrate how the weightless ...